[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by LatinaAlumna

You don't have this straight and you do not understand.

In my experience and part of the country, when a person chooses to call himself/herself Hispanic, that person is taking care to signal to others that while he/she may have been born into a culture, he/she is CHOOSING to distance him or herself from it. That is different than simply "not caring" what you are born into.

It's like saying, "I'm Latino, but don't group me in with all 'those people' because I am different."

There might be another word in another region of the country that fits here, but in my case, it's "Hispanic."

Cultural assimilation is a bitch.